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Eligibility

Membership is handled through individual chapters. The Kansas State Society Daughters of the American Colonists welcomes your interest. You do not need to be a resident of Kansas to apply.

Any woman who is a citizen of the United States of America, is of good moral character and has attained her eighteenth year, shall be eligible to membership, provided that she shall be acceptable to the Society and shall meet the requirements. Eligibility consists of proof of lineal descent from the men and women who were actual residents of American when it was under foreign government as colonies and who rendered civil or military service to the American Colonies prior to 04 July 1776.

Service eligibility includes the following capacities prior to 04 Jul 1776:

1. In battle under colonial authority

2. Under the banner of Great Britain in North America in any of the wars in which the colonists participated

3. All military and naval service of the colonies

4. Furnished troops or funds

5. Filled office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor or Deputy Governor

6. Member or Delegate to Council or Assembly

7. Member of House of Burgesses

8. Deputy or Representative to the General Court

9. Commissioner of the United Colonies, of Boundaries or Treaties, of Import or Excise, to the French or Indians

10. Secretary, Magistrate, Selectman, Justice, Judge of any Court of Law or Equity, Attorney, Advocate, Solicitor, Juryman, Sheriff, Constable, or other forms of civil service

11.Founder or Trustee of any College in North America

12. Minister of the Gospel or Commissary of the Bishop of London

13. Member of the Committee of Safety of the Continental Congress, 1774 and 1775

14. Member of the Council of Safety of 1689

15. Signers of the Mayflower Compact and documented Mayflower passengers who arrived in Plymouth and resided in the colonies

16. Speaker of the House of Deputies

17. Physician or Surgeon

18. Member of the Provincial Congress

19.Signer of the Declaration of Independence

20. Huguenot Refugee

21.Signer of the Oath of Allegiance to Great Britain

22. Original Land Owner, not inheritor

23. Member of the London, Plymouth or Virginia Companies who actually came to the colonies, or the first immigrant descendant of any member of these companies who resided in the colonies

24. Palatine Settler

25. Convenanter from Scotland who actually came to the Colonies or the first immigrant descendant of a Convenanter from Scotland

26. Saltzburger of Georgia

27. Participants in the Regulator Movement of 1765 - 1771 in North Carolina or in the Regulator Movement of 1767 - 1769 in South Carolina.

Chapter Name	City	Organized
Sarah de Rapalje	Kansas City	26 Oct 1925
Margaret Dunning	Topeka	15 Feb 1936
Jane Peebles Sexton	Wichita	12 Nov 1938
William Hilton	Kansas City	28 May 1954
The Arbella	Mission Hills	28 Apr 1966
Leavenworth	Leavenworth	30 Dec 1978
William Cotton	Springhill	18 Oct 2005
Elizabeth Knapp	Manhattan	31 Jan 2015

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